Page 26 - Eternal LIfe

We still have this flesh nature to battle, and even the best of use might

succumb to a misguided course to the extent, and for such a length of

time, that it could greatly blunt our spiritual lives and, at least for a

season, strip us of all heavenly joys reducing us to into such a state of

darkness, deadness and coldness that we would loss sight of the blessed-
ness we once knew and were left to wander in gloom and virtual hope-

lessness. This, to a child of God, is death of the worst sort. Some have

drifted so far away from God that they lost some of the gifts and abilities

God had given them, and even though they later returned to the timely

fold they were never again as useful in the militant kingdom as they

could have been had they not strayed.

Outside the church

family, it’s a cold and

lonely world. There is

bitterness, heartache

and an outer darkness.

The only way we can avoid such an eventuality is to mortify the deeds of

the body by the help of the Spirit. If we underestimate the corruption of our

flesh and the danger we place ourselves in when we dally with sin, there is
little chance that we will not stumble spiritually and be severely injured. We

are the loser every time we walk after the flesh, but if we live after the flesh

for any length of time there is a death awaiting us that will bring us much

anguish of soul and can possibly even issue in corporeal death. My the Lord
help us to live close to Him, seeking first His kingdom and His righteous-

ness, for if we do not we will be on dangerous ground, and we will pay a

high price for our folly.